deoxidize

Other forms of deoxidize

past tense

deoxidized·

present participle

deoxidizing·

third person

deoxidizes·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about deoxidize

What does deoxidize mean?

deoxidize means "to remove oxygen from a compound, or cause to react with hydrogen or form a hydride, or to undergo an increase in the number of electrons".

How many syllables are in deoxidize?

deoxidize has 4 syllables: de-ox-i-dize. The stress falls on "ox".

What is another word for deoxidize?

Close synonyms include deoxidise, reduce. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

What is the opposite of deoxidize?

The recorded antonyms are oxidize.

Is deoxidize a common word?

deoxidize is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.